Statement of Edwin Meese III Before the House Committee on the Judiciary Concerning Department of Justice Authorization, March 12, 1986

• NCJ Number: 102464
• Author(s): E Meese
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 12 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The fiscal year 1987 budget request for the Department of Justice reflects both the administration's initiatives in law enforcement and selective budget reductions designed to reduce the Federal deficit.

Abstract

Priorities for the fiscal year will include confronting international and interstate drug trafficking and organized crime, dealing with people who threaten the Nation's internal security, prosecuting violators of civil rights laws, expanding the Federal prison system, and representing the Federal Government in litigation. The budget request includes expanded resources for the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI. Budget reductions will be accomplished through user fees for some training-related expenses of State and local trainees in Federal training programs and through recision of some 1986 funds for the Office of Justice Programs. The litigation over Gramm-Rudman-Hollings should not divert attention from the need to confront the Federal budget deficit.